ITALIAN
ITAL 106 Intensive Italian
Professor: M. Nicoletti
CRN: 91630 Distribution: D
Time:M T W Th 10:30 am 12:30 pm OLIN 101
A single semester equivalent to Italian 101-102. This rapidly paced course is designed primarily for students who have successfully studied other foreign languages. It is open to others with the instructor's permission. Four ninety-minute classes and two hours of language laboratory. Eight credits.
ITAL 301 La Voce Femminile
Professor: M. Nicoletti
CRN: 91631 Distribution: D
Time: Tue Th 9:00 am 10:20 am OLIN 310
Cross-listed: Gender Studies
A study of selected texts by twentiethcentury women writers. Authors studied include Matilde Serao, Maria Messina, Carolina Invernizio, Grazia Deledda, Anna Banti, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Anna Maria Ortese, Dacia Maraini, Francesca San Vitale, Beatrice Solinas Donghi, and Milena Milani. These works are examined in their social and historical context. Students are expected to participate actively in class discussion. Frequent oral and written reports are assigned to develop language proficiency. Prerequisite: Italian 202 or 203, or the equivalent.
ITAL 305 Quattro Poeti
Contemporanei: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Luzi, Andrea Zanzotto, Amelia Rosselli
Professor: S. Sartarelli
CRN: 91914 Distribution: D
Time: Th 3:50 pm 5:50 pm OLIN 306
A close examination of four
poets of postwar Italy, and the poetics that each represents:
Pasolini, realism and social revolt; Luzi and the metaphysical
and "Hermetic" traditions; Zanzotto, experimentalism
and the problematics of language; Rosselli, lyricism and the limits
of language. We shall read generous selections from the whole
body of work of each poet, with occasional selections from other
contemporaries, and attempt to determine how they reflect new
and old approaches to poetry in Italy and define or re-define
language and meaning. Classes will be conducted in Italian.